Huawei first began looking into next generation Wi-Fi in 2010 and today it said the new speeds could be commercially available by 2018.

Through its research, Huawei aims to increase data transfer rates that are currently limited by what it describes as "a logjam of classical Wi-Fi wideband radio and baseband processing."

The key technologies that enabled Huawei to gain a ten-fold speed boost over its current gigabit capacity are “MIMO-OFDA, intelligent spectrum allocation, interference coordination, and hybrid access”.